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Fred Charles Scobey, the son of Orland B. and Helen (Strong) Scobey, was born in
Greensburg, Ind., on January 20, 1880. He attended the University of Colorado (Boulder)
in 1898 and 1899, Stanford University (Calif.) in 1900 and 1901, and the University of
California (Berkeley) from 1918 to 1921. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science
in civil engineering, "with distinction," by Stanford University in 1931.

From 1901 through 1906, Mr. Scobey held positions as draftsman and computer in the City
Engineer's Office, Denver, Colo. (1901); officeman, later draftsman and topographer, with
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. (1902); officeman with the Union Pacific Railroad (1904);
and officeman in the Chief Engineer's office of the St. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific
Railroad, Raton, New Mexico (1904-1906). From 1906 to 1911, Mr. Scobey worked as office
engineer for E.D. Shepard and Co., Raton, N.M.; as superintendent of Raton Water-Works,
Raton Ice Co., and Raton Fuel Co.; as superintendent of construction for the Nevada
Construction Co.; as office engineer for the San Luis Southern Railroad, Blanca, Colo.;
as irrigation engineer for Imperial Water Companies Nos. 1-4-5-7-8, in Imperial Valley,
Calif.; and as special agent for the U.S. Census Bureau's Census of Irrigation, Colo.

In 1911, Mr. Scobey accepted the position of irrigation engineer with the Department of
Agriculture. He began work on the determination of the carrying capacity of irrigation
canals and, later, of all types of conduits used in irrigation. He made field
measurements on all types of channels throughout the West to determine their friction
factors in Kutter's and Manning's formulas, and to determine the exponents for
exponential formulas for pipes. These studies were printed by the Department of
Agriculture.

Mr. Scobey died on July 19, 1962.

From:
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Vol. 128,
Part V, 1963.

Correspondence with William P. Creager on revision of Hydro-Electric Handbook on friction coefficients for conduits. 1945-1946.

Physical Description: 1 envelope.

item 19

Scobey, Fred C.

American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee on Districts and Zones. 1950-1951.

Physical Description: 1 envelope.

item 20

Engineers Joint Council. Water Policy Project.

Basic water resources information. 1950-1951.

Physical Description: 1 envelope.

item 21

Pipe Linings, Inc.

Loss of head tests conducted on San Joaquin pipe line no. 1, San Joaquin River to Tesla Portal, San Joaquin Division of the
Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct / By Pipe Linings, Inc. and National Water Main Cleaning Company. [1953].

Flow of water in constricted lengths of open channels, particularly, the analysis of steady non-uniform flow as generally
found in short lengths of flume, culvert, tunnel, gate structure or other short constriction placed in standard sections of
canal. 1931.

item 29

Scobey, Fred C.

Technique in mapping as related to land use: as developed for the Rio Grande Joint Investigation. 1937.